Neither Serbia nor Kosovo wanted to impose, as evidenced by their dispute, Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Macron. They urge, however, that there is between the two, again, a substantive dialogue.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French head of state, Emmanuel Macron have launched a joint Initiative to resolve the bitter dispute between Serbia and Kosovo. Progress on the Western Balkans are only possible if individual States worked against each other, said Angela Merkel in front of a West Balkan summit in the Chancellery, to load you with Macron had.

The French President stressed, the Chancellor, and he had in the dispute over the recognition of Kosovo by Serbia, “it is not the intention of Belgrade and Pristina, a solution of pretending”. But they wanted to help to conduct the debate in a “less emotional”.

Julia Krittian, ARD Berlin, the Balkan conference at the Chancellery
tagesschau 12:00 PM, 29.04.2019

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